A5086 crash in Cumberland on 10 August 2021 at 06:45 involving a Land Rover Defender
A Land Rover Defender and a Vauxhall Adam were involved in a crash on the A5086 in Cumberland at 06:45 on Tuesday 10 August 2021. The 21-year-old male driver of the Land Rover Defender and the 26-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Adam were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Aug 2021
- Tuesday, 06:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Land Rover Defender and Vauxhall Adam
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.54613, longitude -3.48916, in the CA26 postcode district and within the built-up area of Frizington. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cleator Moor East and Frizington, Cumberland, CA26 3SA area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Copeland district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021031111179
- Council area
- Cumberland
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5086
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 May 2021.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A5086 in Cumberland, 6 May 2021
2 m awayRef 2021031055676
Slight
Car crash on the A5086 in Cumberland, 26 July 1979
4 m awayRef 197903A205050
Slight
Suzuki Vitara crash on the A5086 in Cumberland, 21 February 2020
43 m awayRef 2020030934029
Slight
Mercedes crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 18 December 1998
47 m awayRef 1998030003627
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A5086 in Cumberland, 16 July 2001
50 m awayRef 2001030002072
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 24 April 1986
58 m awayRef 198603A202360
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Defender
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,495 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 28 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Adam
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Land Rover Defender)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Adam)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 2021031111179 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cumberland road accident statistics for 2021.